which film?

[bohome]

Hi guys. I'm very new to RF and I just developed my first few rolls. However I was shocked at the grain or noise of the photos. I used a couple of kodak nc400 n fuji s400.

I just wanna ask a few questions:

1. Are all films at iso400 really grainy? If not, which films have finer grains at iso400?

2. How about films at lower iso? Which films give the least "noise"?

Hope any experienced shooters can help me out. Any suggestions are truly appreciated. Cheers.

 

[Royale With Cheese]

care to share some shots here?

I believe it could be due to under exposure therefore grainy?

Kodak NC400? where did you get those?

Superia 400 from fuji is pretty good actually, a very under-rated consumer film.

I shot these on superia 1600, not that grainy at all
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnosticgary/4547829926/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnosticgary/4554496117/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnosticgary/4550876343/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agnosticgary/4554490821/

 

[bohome]

Sure thing. Definitely will post them as soon as i get home.

I think my gf bought those for me from the states.

Wow. Really?? They look amazing. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bohome]

alright. here are some of those. my initial thoughts were the iso/film. but fellow Royale's pictures made me think otherwise. hehe. any ideas what else could be the problem?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52955081@N06/4883177672/

 

[lordpain]

my thoughts are similar to rwc's, that your pics are prob underexposed. when the scanner trys to correct it, it increases the grain as well. probably you would want to use a digi cam or a lighmeter to check your exposure before shooting., maybe your film camera could be at fault.

 

[bohome]

thanks lordpain.

 

[Royale With Cheese]

thanks lordpain.

Yep, looks like the film went under, think lordpain explained above already.

Does your camera have build in metering? What cam is that?

Oh yea, for film, its ok to go over 1/2-1 stop for negatives/B&W, you still can pull it back in photoshop after the scanning.

Just switch off all options during scanning & do the post processing after the scan. Those shots from Thaipusam are actually 1/2 or 1 stop over if I remember correctly. I did +1/2 EV when shooting those, rather have the film slightly over & pull it back in photoshop then going under, which is quite a big problem to rectify.

 

[bohome]

Sadly, no. I'm using an m4 with a vc meter. Still hoping to upgrade to one with metering. Hehe. I got the films developed and scanned into a cd.

Thanks for the tips, sirs.